NEW PALTZ — The School of Science and Engineering at the State University of New York at New Paltz will host a day-long event on Wednesday, Feb. 19, to introduce students from the region’s school districts to the wonders and excitement a career in engineering may offer. Special guest and keynote…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Stephen M. Walt, professor of International Affairs and Academic Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, will give a lecture at SUNY New Paltz at 7 p.m. on Feb. 20 in the Coykendall Science Building auditorium. Professor Walt’s lecture, “The United States vs….
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — This February, the Legislative Gazette, the student run newspaper dedicated to New York Government politics in Albany, will enter into the 25th year of its’ internship program. What started as a handful of students working on the first edition with only one phone, a desk and a…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Journalism Professor Robert Miraldi’s new biography of a turn-of-the-century investigative reporter recreates the turbulent and controversial life of a forgotten but once-famous reform journalist. But it also finds remarkable similarities in problems found in 1903 that still plague America in 2003. The book, The Pen Is Mightier: The…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Rachel Coen, a media analyst with Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), will give a lecture titled “Media Coverage of Civil Liberties and Dissent” at 7 p.m. on Feb. 6 in the Coykendall Science Building on the SUNY New Paltz campus. The lecture will address the mainstream media…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — United States Senator Charles Schumer is hosting a conference for employers in the mid-Hudson Valley to introduce them to housing programs that can help recruit and retain employees. The conference will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7, at The Terrace restaurant on the…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The future of computer science is coming to SUNY New Paltz. On Feb. 6, the School of Science and Engineering presents a lecture on quantum computing by Dr. David DiVincenzo, of the IBM Watson Research Center, as part of their 2002-03 colloquium series. An accomplished leader in the…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The half-day economics conference, “Who Benefits from State and Local Economic Development Policies,” originally scheduled for Friday, Jan. 31, will be postponed. The conference will focus on ways to promote economic development and the growth of small business and is sponsored by the State University of New York…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — A. J. Williams-Myers, professor of Black Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz, has recently published his essays focusing on the African American in the history of New York in a new book titled, On the Morning Tide: African Americans, History and Methodology…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The State University of New York at New Paltz will hold its fall commencement exercises from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., this Saturday, Dec 21, at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie. Kevin Rickard of Poughkeepsie is the graduating class’ salutatorian. Rickard has a 3.98 grade point average…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Eight hundred graduate candidates will be awarded their degrees at the State University of New York December Commencement Ceremony at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 21, at the mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie. The ceremony’s featured speaker will be this fall’s valedictorian, Klodian Vangjeli, an international student from…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The State University of New York at New Paltz will hold December Commencement exercises from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie on Saturday, Dec. 21. Eight hundred graduate candidates will be graduated from the university during the ceremony. In addition to a…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — State University of New York at New Paltz professors Dr. Katherine L. French and Patricia C. Phillips have both been selected as recipients of the Chancellor’s Research Recognition Award. French and Phillips will be invited to the dinner honoring researchers in humanities, arts and social sciences on…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The Friends of the Sojourner Truth Library at the State University of New York at New Paltz will hold a used book sale from Dec. 2 -13 during all library hours. Hard cover books will sell for $1 and paperbacks are priced at 50 cents each. All…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Sydney Schanberg, an internationally-known reporter who won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1976, will discuss with students what the American public needs from the press in light of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the nation and the possible war with Iraq that hangs over the…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The 9/11 Response Planning Committee, Sociology Department and the Scudder Hall staff at SUNY New Paltz are sponsoring a lecture on Thursday, Nov. 21, titled “The Machine that Makes War: Understanding U.S. Militarism at All Levels.” The guest lecturer will be Joel Kovel, Alger Hiss professor of…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — In summer 2003 a second cohort of students will begin the requirements for the Ph.D. in educational administration and policy studies on the SUNY New Paltz campus. The degree is offered in collaboration with the University at Albany and will draw upon the strengths of the faculty…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Distinguished professor Laurence Hauptman, a faculty member of the SUNY New Paltz History Department, recently has been awarded two grants. Hauptman received the Reginald Lenna Foundation visiting scholars grant and the 2003 New York Council for the Humanities Speakers grant. For the Regina Lenna Foundation grant, Hauptman served…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The Alumni Association of the State University of New York at New Paltz will honor this year’s outstanding alumni on Nov. 23, at The Terrace restaurant located on the New Paltz campus. The alumni awards are given each year to alumni who have distinguished themselves in their…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The office of the Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Department of Economics and the Economics Club will sponsor a lecture on Nov. 13, featuring Dr. James Orr, the senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Orr will be discuss the economic and…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The State University of New York at New Paltz Management Association is hosting a Student Development Day conference on campus from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., on Nov. 15, in the Student Union Building. This full day event will allow students of various majors the opportunity to…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz has received a grant for $25,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation to help support the 2003 exhibition “Utopia/Post-Utopia: Conceptual Photography and Video from Cuba.” The exhibition includes works of 10 of the most advanced artists working in Cuba today…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The State University of New York at New Paltz is pleased to announce the appointment of Lloyd Axelrod as the college’s new director of public affairs. Axelrod has an extensive resume of public relations and media experience in both the public and private sectors, including the successful…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The State University of New York at New Paltz will host Graduate and Professional School Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Oct. 29, in the Lecture Center north lobby. Selected graduate schools participating are Adelphi University, Albany Law School, Columbia University-College of Arts and Sciences, Hofstra University,…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The State University of New York at New Paltz will welcome prospective students for its 2002 Fall Open House from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 9 to offer information about academic programs, student services, admissions, financial aid, residence life, student activities, athletics and recreation, internships…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Roger Kahn, who has been called the best baseball writer in America, will discuss his recently completed book on the 1978 New York Yankees while visiting with students from a literary journalism class at SUNY New Paltz on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 12:30 p.m. in Jacobson Faculty…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The State University of New York at New Paltz will host the eighth annual Multicultural Conference titled “Keeping Multicultural Education Alive, in Spite of Everything,” from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Nov. 8, in the Student Union Building. This annual conference brings together educators, students, parents and community…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Award-winning reporter Ann Cooper, who currently heads up the foremost advocacy group in the world that seeks to protect endangered journalists, has been named the third James H. Ottaway Sr. Professor of Journalism at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Cooper will take a leave…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The State University of New York will host a news conference at noon on Thursday, Oct. 17, in the reading lounge of the Coykendall Science Building (room 54) to introduce Ann Cooper as the third James H. Ottaway Sr. Endowed Professor in Journalism. Participants will include: Ann Cooper, award-winning…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The School of Science and Engineering at SUNY New Paltz will begin the 2002-03 colloquium series on Thursday, Oct. 17, with a lecture about the science and clinical potential of human gene therapy. These colloquium lectures, two in the fall and three in the spring, are designed for…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The State University of New York at New Paltz will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony and grand opening for its new state-of-the-art Language Learning Center at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 16, in Lecture Center 112. State Sen. John J. Bonacic, who secured $100,000 of state funding to…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The State University of New York at New Paltz has received a $102,000 gift from Ms. Karen Dorsky to benefit the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (SDMA). Ms. Dorsky, a member of the museum’s 15-member executive board, contributed the endowment to the museum’s director’s fund. The purpose of…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — For the fourth consecutive semester at the State University of New York at New Paltz, students are presenting the program “Tunnel of Oppression.” This program includes a series of vignettes enacted by students and a march against hate through the New Paltz campus. Both are free and…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The impact of conflict on women throughout the world and women’s involvement in war, revolution and peace efforts will be the topic of this year’s Women’s Studies Conference on Oct. 19 at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Titled “Women and War, Peace and Revolution,”…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz has shown strong results among SUNY schools in two college guides, Barron’s and the Princeton Review, and has moved up in the national rankings in Kiplinger’s magazine and the U.S. News & World Report, college surveys that acknowledge the institution for its quality, selectivity…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz would like to invite the media, the campus community and general public to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for Lenape Hall, a 238-bed residence hall, at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18, at the former site of the women’s varsity softball field across from Esopus…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The SUNY New Paltz Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering recently received approval from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) for its outstanding service to students. The electrical and computer engineering programs were evaluated by ABET in the fall of 2001. The result of their survey…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Beginning Sept. 12, SUNY New Paltz students, faculty, staff, alumni, prospective students and the world will be able to read the already established print version of The Oracle, the student newspaper, online. President of the Student Association Jonathan Amoia believes the benefits are limitless. “The online version of…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The SUNY New Paltz School of Education will honor seven exceptional teachers in the Mid-Hudson Valley for outstanding and effective work with students by presenting to them the Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching. The awards will be presented at 4 p.m., Sept. 26, at a ceremony…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz has announced the appointment of Ann Lovett as the interim dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts for the 2002-03 academic year, a position she previously held for seven months in 2000. “I am delighted that Ann Lovett has agreed to serve as…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — As a remembrance of the events that took place on Sept. 11, 2001, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at SUNY New Paltz is sponsoring a panel discussion to reflect on the impact and effects of the terrorist attacks. The event will take place from 4:30 to…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The State University of New York at New Paltz has received a $300,000 gift from Mrs. Sara Bedrick, the fifth largest donation in the college’s history, to benefit the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Interim President Steven Poskanzer announced Sept. 5. It is a lead gift in the…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — To assist businesses in developing a competitive advantage, the Business Institute at SUNY New Paltz will sponsor a Competitive Intelligence and Security Conference on Thursday, Sept.19 in the Student Union Building on the college campus. Businesses today need to be current in the collection and analysis of information…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz will hold its 16th annual Convocation at noon on Aug. 23 in Julien J. Studley Theatre, located in the Old Main Building. Convocation is a formal welcoming ceremony for incoming and transfer students, with a focus on the academic experience at the university. At the…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The SUNY New Paltz campus will come to life Wednesday, Aug. 21, when about 920 new freshmen students move into their new homes in the residence halls. About 650 new transfer students will join them later in the week. The freshmen were selected from a pool of more…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz communication and media and physics students can now earn an MBA with only one additional year of education. Working closely with the School of Business, New Paltz’s Department of Communication and Media and Department of Physics have designed 4 + 1 degree plans leading…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz has announced the appointment of Kelli Parmley as the new director of institutional research. Parmley will coordinate research about New Paltz in an effort to provide the best education it can for its students and the campus community. She has served as the associate…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Sixteen SUNY New Paltz students (including several from the Hudson Valley, see list on page 2) from 16 different academic departments have been recognized as outstanding graduates through a new initiative called “Honor with Books,” a program that places a personalized bookplate in a newly purchased book…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz Interim President Steven Poskanzer announced on Tuesday, July 23, the appointment of L. David Rooney to the office of vice president for student affairs. “I am delighted that David has agreed to join us,” said Poskanzer about Dr. Rooney’s appointment. “I believe he is extraordinarily…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Rose Rudnitski, Ph.D., associate professor of elementary education at SUNY New Paltz, has been selected as one of 14 Larry J. Hackman Research Residency recipients from the New York State Archives Partnership Trust for the 2002-2003 grant cycle. Rudnitski’s research project is titled, “Extending the Blessings: The Complex…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Victor de Munck, assistant professor of anthropology at SUNY New Paltz, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Grant to lecture at Vilnius University in Lithuania during the 2002-2003 academic year. de Munck, one of 11 SUNY professors within the last 20 years to receive a Fulbright grant, will…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — “On Campus @ SUNY New Paltz,” a 30-minute television show that airs weekly on Time Warner Cable’s channel 6, will feature the history and politics of the Language Immersion Program in its next episode on Thursday, July 18. Faculty member Abigail Robin will host the show, which airs…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Flying trapeze, juggling, plate spinning and balancing acts — these are just a few of the events taking place in the Elting Gymnasium on the campus at SUNY New Paltz through July 20. As part of a two-week summer day-camp program that began July 8, the National Circus…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The Department of Athletics at SUNY New Paltz has hired Mike Salerno as its new sports information director. Salerno brings to New Paltz an extensive background in sports information to help expand the coverage of all sports programs on and off campus. During a time of dramatic change…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — SUNY New Paltz’s new state-of-the-art Language Learning Center will open for students at the start of Fall Semester 2002. The center will allow New Paltz to expand language learning possibilities using modern technology and establish New Paltz as the leading venue for foreign language learning within SUNY. The…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — All SUNY New Paltz offices will be closed on Thursday, July 4, in celebration of Independence Day. In addition, several campus offices will be closed on Friday, July 5. Anyone seeking campus services should call ahead to see if that office will be open. To contact the campus, call…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Distinguished Professor Laurence Hauptman, a faculty member of the SUNY New Paltz History Department for 31 years, recently published his 13th book on Native Americans, Chief Daniel Bread and United Nation of Indians of Wisconsin. Hauptman wrote the book with L. Gordon McLester III of Oneida, Wis.,…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — “On Campus @ SUNY New Paltz,” a 30-minute television show that airs weekly on Time Warner Cable’s channel 6, will feature the 2002 Summer Repertory Theatre in its next episode on Thursday, July 11. Interim President Steven Poskanzer will host the show. His guests include Emeritus Professor Frank…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The SUNY New Paltz School of Business has received approval from SUNY Central Administration and the New York State Education Department to offer Bachelor of Science degree programs in finance, management, marketing, international business and general business beginning this summer. “This will take the School of Business to…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Pepsi Cola is much more to the students of the State University of New York at New Paltz than a soft drink. Pepsi Cola of the Mid-Hudson Valley’s commitment to New Paltz furnishes student scholarships and funding for campus quality-of-life improvements. In each of the last three years,…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Shelly Wright, a lecturer in the SUNY New Paltz Department of Communication and Media and the coordinator of the college’s public relations program, has agreed to serve as interim director of the college’s Public Affairs Office. She will lead the office during the summer of 2002 while…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Susan Lewis, associate professor of history at the State University of New York at New Paltz, recently won the Distinguished Dissertation Award from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She won the award in the category “Social Sciences, Management and Education” for her dissertation titled…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — For 16 years, Carl Bacon has been the “right hand” of the vice presidents at the State University of New York at New Paltz. As director of institutional research, his number crunching has provided administrators with important data about New Paltz’ students and alumni. “He is the center…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — One thousand, four hundred and seventy-seven State University of New York at New Paltz students will become alumni of the university during its spring commencement May 19. The ceremony will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Old Main Quadrangle on the New Paltz…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The student chapter of the American Marketing Association at the State University of New York at New Paltz won three major awards at the 24th American Marketing Association Annual International Collegiate Conference, held in Orlando, Fla., in April. The chapter received the award for Best Chapter Plan, which…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — For the third consecutive semester at the State University of New York at New Paltz, students are presenting the program “Tunnel of Oppression.” This program includes a series of vignettes enacted by students and a march against hate through the town of New Paltz. Both are free…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — As graduation approaches at the State University of New York at New Paltz, engineering students will have a chance to prove what they have learned when they present their senior design projects on May 10. “The projects are considered important accomplishments of the students,” said Ghader Eftekhari, Computer…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The SUNY New Paltz Writing Board will present its 6th annual “Celebration of Writing Day” on Thursday, May 2, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Honors Center at College Hall. Light refreshments will be served. “Celebration of Writing Day” recognizes and honors student writing from all disciplines….
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The State University of New York Board of Trustees today appointed Gerald Benjamin, dean of New Paltz’ College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of political science, to the position of Distinguished Professor, the university’s highest faculty designation. The Distinguished Professor designation is conferred on individuals who…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — As communities continue to strive for school performance improvements, assessment methods are often the center of controversy. And, assessments will be the focus of a conference at the State University of New York at New Paltz entitled “Reclaiming Assessment in an Age of Standardization.” During the conference, to…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — To all those seeking to “break into news,” the SUNY New Paltz Society for Collegiate Journalists is holding its annual Media Day on Saturday, May 4 to promote interest in the field of journalism and offer advice on what the future holds for today’s journalism student. The keynote…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Student scholarships are the “hole in one” goal at the fourth annual SUNY New Paltz Scholarship Golf Tournament, which will be held at Nevele Grande Resort in Ellenville on May 31. The growing popularity of the tournament makes the day’s time on the fairway and at the tournament…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Select exhibitions featured at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz will now live well beyond their venues at the SDMA thanks to a donation from Jim and Mary Ottaway. The $7,500 annual gift will fund the publication of…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — E.T. phones home at SUNY New Paltz on Monday, April 29 in a lecture titled “Communicating with Extraterrestrial Civilizations.” The lecture, which will be the final in this year’s Physical Sciences and Engineering Colloquium, will be given by Brian McConnell, a self-employed inventor, telecommunications engineer and author. McConnell will…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The State University of New York at New Paltz recently promoted Michele Halstead of Stone Ridge to the position of assistant vice president in the Administration Division. Halstead was selected for the position after a regional search. She has been with SUNY New Paltz for 12 years, and…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The University Police Department at the State University of New York at New Paltz recently earned certification from the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services for participation in the New York State Incident Based Reporting program. “As a NYSIBR-certified agency you are among the leading law…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Sabine Roehr, adjunct philosophy professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, will share the thoughts of 18th century German philosopher Immanuel Kant on the topic of freedom and morality. The lecture, titled “… ‘Starry Heaven’s Above Me and the Moral Law Within Me’ Freedom…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Research papers and posters on biology, computer science, chemistry, foreign languages, geology, communication, psychology and sociology will be featured at the annual Student Research Symposium at the State University of New York at New Paltz’s on Friday, April 19, from 2 to 7 p.m. at the College…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The Internet’s role in the productivity and growth of the semiconductor industry and the evolution of digital design will headline a free simulcast conference titled “Programmable World 2002” at the State University of New York at New Paltz on Wednesday, April 17. In their keynote speeches, Cisco Senior…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — For the fifth year, the State University of New York at New Paltz will host 36 middle schools at the 2002 New York State Science Olympiad. “These events provide a great opportunity for the middle school students to get involved with doing science, not just reading about what…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — State University of New York at New Paltz English Professor Ernelle Fife heads to Hershey, Pa., this summer to participate in a highly selective research seminar. A current resident of New Paltz, Fife has been teaching at SUNY New Paltz for five years. She has taught courses such…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Patricia C. Phillips, art critic, curator and dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts at the State University of New York at New Paltz, has been named executive editor of Art Journal, the contemporary art quarterly of the College Art Association. The CAA is the national…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bernard Stein and poet Robert Polito will speak at a writing symposium Thursday, April 18 at the State University of New York at SUNY New Paltz. The symposium, titled “Language as Power: Writing in Response to Terrorism,” is an annual event sponsored by the University…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The development of communication, cooperation, critical thinking and creative expression skills will be the focus of a workshop at the State University of New York at New Paltz on Thursday, April 18 from 7-9 p.m. at the College Terrace Restaurant. The workshop will explore issues specific to educators…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Albert Ellis, the man named “Most Influential Psychotherapist” in a survey of Canadian clinical psychologists, will speak at the State University of New York at New Paltz on Friday, April 12. Ellis will speak about dealing rationally with the emotional ramifications of the World Trade Center attacks and…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Scott Ritter, a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq, will give a lecture at the State University of New York at New Paltz, titled “Terror, Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Coming War with Iraq” on Tuesday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Coykendall Science…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The Friends of the Sojourner Truth Library will hold its semi-annual used book sale at the State University of New York at New Paltz April 22 through May 3. The regular sale, which is on-going during all library hours, offers hardcover books for $1 and paperbacks priced at…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Journalism professor Howard Good’s seventh book, which examines how journalists are portrayed in the movies, will be published this month by Praeger Publishers. It is entitled “Media Ethics Goes to the Movies” and is intended to be used as a text for classes in media ethics. Good has…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The president of China’s Xi’an Foreign Languages University will provide an “insider’s” view of changes in Chinese higher education in a lecture at the State University of New York at New Paltz on Monday, April 8. Ruiquing Du’s lecture, titled “A System in Transition: Most Recent Changes in…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Iza Trapani, author and illustrator of books for children, will speak at the Sojourner Truth Library at the State University of New York at New Paltz on Monday, April 15, as part of the library’s National Library Week celebration. Trapani, a New Paltz alumna, has written and illustrated…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The Department of Black Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz, along with the Student Association, will sponsor a lecture titled “Abuses and Exploitation in the Congo: The Human Costs of Resource Exploitation in the Congo” on Wednesday, April 3 at 7 p.m….
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The campus television station at the State University of New York at New Paltz now airs on channel 8, as Time Warner Cable shuffled its line up to add WPXN on channel 17. New Paltz’ NPC-8 airs a variety of educational, community and documentary programming, including a weekly…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The SUNY New Paltz School of Engineering is proud to welcome Yaser Khalifa and Mohammad Zunoubi into the faculty. “The Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering at SUNY New Paltz is fortunate to have Mohammad Zunoubi and Yaser Khalifa join the department as assistant professors within the past…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — John Baugher, assistant professor of sociology at the State University of New York at New Paltz, will present a lecture titled “Individualization, Political Generations and Union Loyalty,” Monday, March 25 at 5 p.m. in the campus’ Honors Center, located in College Hall. “Unions in many Western industrialized societies…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — State University of New York at New Paltz students Melissa Mansfield of Poughkeepsie and Joe Burke of Huntington have received top honors from the New York Press Association for their writing in the student newspaper, The Oracle. Mansfield received first place in column writing and Burke took second…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — The voice of Viennese-born Frankfurt opera singer Leonore Schwarz Neumaier will once again resound. An exhibition depicting the life of Leonore Schwarz Neumaier, who was a victim of the Nazi Holocaust, will open Saturday, April 6 at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Have you ever wanted to take a road trip of a lifetime or watched the MTV show Road Rules? If you watched last season’s show “The Quest,” you should know Sophia and Blair. The two cast members are on the road to the State University of New…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Extraordinary achievements in business, international relations and academic excellence define the first inductees in the State University of New York at New Paltz’ School of Business Hall of Fame. Taylor N. Thompson Sr. of Kingston, Paul Daniels of Wallkill and Lisa Greco of Saugerties will be formally honored…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — More than 500 prospective freshmen students will converge on the State University of New York at New Paltz campus April 6 to “kick the tires” one more time as they prepare to make their decisions on which college they will attend. After reviewing more than 10,000 freshman applications,…
Read MoreNEW PALTZ — Women who are considering a hysterectomy now have access to a compassionate step-by-step overview of the process, the latest medical information, and valuable Web resources all in one book. Adelaide Haas, professor of communication and women’s studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz,…
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